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TVA's Top Executive to Give Ash Spill Deposition

(Business Week 8-31-2010) The Tennessee Valley Authority's top executive is to answer questions behind closed doors for seven hours about the utility's coal ash spill.
 
TVA Chief Executive Officer Tom Kilgore is scheduled to give a deposition Tuesday at the utility's headquarters in Knoxville, answering questions by lawyers for people who have filed damage lawsuits. A TVA spokeswoman said the session is closed to reporters.
 

EPA to Decide Whether Coal Ash is Hazardous Waste

(USA Today 8-27-2010) The U.S. coal industry is bracing for tighter and more costly regulation of its waste. Environmental groups say that it's about time.
 
The Environmental Protection Agency next week is set to begin a month of hearings on whether coal-ash waste — what's left after coal is burned to make electricity — should be effectively treated as hazardous waste subject to tighter safeguards.
 

Urgent Letter to All Supporters of Beneficial Use

To All Supporters of CCP Beneficial Use:
 

Power Plant Waste Could Be Used to Clean Up Oil From BP Disaster

(Fast Company 8-5-2010) After over 100 days, the BP oil leak finally appears to be plugged. But while the White House claims that the vast majority of oil has evaporated or been cleaned up with burning, oil skimmers, and dispersants, there is still plenty of the sticky stuff lingering just below the ocean's surface. One potential solution: power plant waste.
 

RockTron's Recycling Revolution

(Industrial Fules and Uses 8-2-2010) RockTron, an award-winning pioneer in recycling, has designed and built a new plant that can transform coal-fired power station waste, called fly ash or PFA (pulverised fuel ash), into highly valuable industrial eco-minerals. RockTron can recycle both fresh and stockpiled fly ash, reducing the need for costly and environmentally unfriendly long-term waste storage.Fly ash currently poses a huge global environmental problem, with an estimated 2bnt of fly ash currently stored in landfill sites and ash dumps worldwide, and over 100Mt in the UK alone.

New Fly Ash Regulations Threaten Sustainable Concrete

(Sustainable Concrete 8-2-2010) Concrete is the most used building material in the world. The only resource consumed in greater quantity is water. For every person on the planet approximately 35 cubic feet of concrete is produced each year.
 
The manufacture of the main binding agent in concrete, portland cement, accounts for between 5 percent and 7 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide output. Researchers are investigating many ways to reduce the carbon dioxide footprint of concrete from new manufacturing techniques to alternative binders for concrete.

Fly Ash in Cement - A Win Win Solution

(Aggregate Research 7-29-2010) Gunnar Syversten, General Manager of HeidelbergCement Northern Europe, based in Norway, discusses the use of fly ash.  As presented at the EuroCoalAsh 2010 Conference, held in Copenhagen, Denmark in May 2010.
 
Heidelberg Cement in the world
 

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